Paperback edition, with 276 pages.

Jeremy Pauling is a thirty-eight-year-old batchelor who has never left home. He has a passion for making sculptures out of odds and ends and he has a terror of beautiful women. The death of his mother leaves Jeremy in sole charge of her ramshackle old boarding house, and the arrival of a new lodger brings him a challenge he really can't handle. Her name is Mary Tell.

The book is travelling to its next reader!
...I was a little absent-minded, I wanted so much to let it go, so things have been left out, but luckily at the post office the lady was helpful, so we managed to tape together the parcels...

Received from hakkalina as part of the Colour my life rabck exchange. Thanks!
Looking forward to read this! This was a wish-list book.

I have enjoyed this book, just as I have other books by this author.

This book has been added to the' previously bookcrossed books VBB' run by katrinat.
Hopefully soon off to new reader!

Thank you for sending this book from the Already Bookcrossed VBB. Looks like a good read :)

Great book. First time I have read this author and I really enjoyed the way she has moved the story on through many characters- right to the very end. (MIL)

ETA MIL read and found it quite sad. She says that about a lot of books I read :)

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Hoping to leave this at the BC meet up in York

I picked this up at the York bookcrossers meetup last night. Mainly because I was excited it had cone all the way from Budapest.

I appreciated this book, but couldn't exactly say I enjoyed it. It's mostly about people hurting each other without meaning to, trying to be understanding of one another's needs but getting it wrong. There is plenty of that in my relationship history, so I can't say it's not well observed and beautifully written, but it's pretty bleak stuff. Or seemed so to me.

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Usual Anne Tyler style...laconic, slow moving but somehow gripping. Quiet lives wonderfully described . Her characters are unusual and memorable. Found at kitchen garden cafe after Boo Hewerdine giig